Radio N - Tomorrow night's show

[docwebster]

I had mentioned running the Concert For Change and The Wall Live In Berlin 1990 tomorrow night, but got absolutely no responses. Are people just not up for it?

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Re: alphabet soup

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the explanations :) I'm knowledgeable in my fields (ask me to explain the carbon cycle or cultural landscapes and I'm your woman!), but computer science is not my strength byond basic usage :)

I'm not entirely sure. I'm 100% sure it's not my computer itself, as my computer is brand new and virus free (I have virus protection, but no individual firewall installed). I get my internet connection from the university network. When I asked the C&C guys what might be causing the problem, they told me it was probably the firewall causing issues.

It seems to be working okay tonight, which leads me to believe (my dad's an engineer, and he taught me to always ask 'what has changed which might be affecting this?') that it may be attributable to bandwidth - a lot of students have gone out this Firday night, and midterms are coming up, so people are hitting the books rather than the net.

I really should get myself a 'for dummies' book or eight. I did the research and learned the basics of automobile and motorcycle mechanics so that I'd understand the problems, do basic maintenance and know when my mechanic was ...er... well, shitting me. I don't even own a car at the moment - seems like the least I can do is figure out the computer and connection basics.

player buffer size, maybe?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_duncan/]

If the school's netfeed can't sustain an audio feed at 24kbps then something is severely wrong at the school.

Yes, lack of available bandwidth would do it. If the throughput to your client doesn't keep up with the shoutcast's input data rate then eventually it will drop the copy of the stream going your way... or just skip a song or two and try again. Depends on the server.

Using WinAmp version 2.80 (because it sounds better than version 5.03) navigate to plugins/input/MPEG audio/streaming and set a pretty big buffer. I have 128KB which, at doc's high datarate, should be about 18 seconds of audio. I set the threshholds at 40 and 80 percent for "start of stream" and "after buffer underrun".

I can unplug my switch from its router for several seconds without stopping the music. That should allow joe-random-neighbor to get his livejournal show_your_boobs fix without killing the tunes.

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>ping -t callahans.seanmcpherson.com

From home I get numbers mostly in the mid 60ms range with nothing lost. Try that from school when the music won't play. Sudden increases or outright drops are the result of other demands on the network between you and doc's reflector.

From the server colocated at hurricane electric (a cable-throw over the wall from mae-west) I get times in the low 90ms range.